2006 Interns

2006 Kyle Kikuchi
Participation year:  2006
Sponsor: Sogi
Program: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program (APAP)
Kyle Kikuchi interned at the Smithsonian Institute’s (SI) Asian Pacific American (APA) Program where he maintained gift records for the Vietnamese Heritage Project and did research for a potential exhibit telling the story of Indian Americans and their near monopoly on the motel industry.

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2006 Sarah Myhre
Participation year:  2006
Sponsor:  NCRC/Fong
Program:  National Museum of American History
Sarah Keleka Myhre interned with the Department of Military History and Diplomacy in the Smithsonian’s American History Museum under Cedric Yeh.  Her first major and on-going project began with the de-installation and securing of the military exhibits in the path of the museum’s upcoming construction.

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2006 Barron Oda
Participation year:  2006
Sponsor:  NCRC/Fong
Program:  National Museum of American History
Barron Oda was an intern at the National Museum of American History.  He was assigned the job of cataloging a “Teaching Collection” of 600 items which had to be researched, tracing the origins of some items that were previously tagged with numbers, approximate date of manufacture and purpose, and photographs and descriptions of each item.

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2006 Elizabeth J. West
Participation year:  2006
Sponsor:  NCRC/Fong
Program:  World Sindhi Institute (WSI)
Elizabeth West interned at the World Sindhi Institute (WSI), a non-profit organization that works for human rights issues in Pakistan. She wrote press releases, controlled communications with Congress, worked on event logistics, and conducted research on the exploitation of natural resources in Sindhi.